Film

The much acclaimed adaptation of Tatiana de Rosnay’s novel, Sarah’s Key, tells the story of a little girl with a heavy secret. In Paris, July 1942, Sarah and her family are callously wrenched from their home, arrested amidst 13,000 other Jews…

I Am Number Four is the latest movie trying to capitalise on the current ‘paranormal romance phenomenon’ in the teenage market. It feels a little like a feeble attempt by a large American corporate to copy something successful with low risk…

Wednesday February 9th saw the premiere of Love Birds at Hoyts Sylvia Park with the New Zealand-made comedy’s stars and VIPs attending for a first glimpse of the film…

Blue Valentine is a film about the start of a relationship; when we are heady with the love drug, and the end when things get so bad, that you actually hate the person you once loved. Harsh and brutal? Yes. But who hasn’t been there?

Disney’s Gnomeo and Juliet is a rather interesting (on paper anyway) mix of Shakespeare’s tale of star-crossed lovers and the world of the ornamental garden gnome. Really! Seriously – who thinks this stuff up?

Filmed at the National Theatre in London, the hit Broadway show, “Fela! – The Musical”, tells the story of Nigerian artist and activist, Fela Kuti, through a three-hour extravaganza of heartbeat-raising song, dance, and dramatic discourse…

In A Better World, deals with two extremely different cultures and how they deal with major issues in everyday life – and it proves that as humans, we really all are the same. It’s no surprise it took out the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film…

Conviction tells the incredible story of Betty Anne Waters’ journey to free her brother who was wrongly convicted for murder. This is the kind of gritty role that you have come to expect of Hilary Swank after her Oscar win for Million Dollar Baby….

Stars Wars was, and is, a pop cultural phenomenon which has weaved its influential tales of rubber aliens and light-sabery into the very heart of at least the last two generations. The film, “The People vs George Lucas” looks at its manic fanbase…

Nothing entertains more than a good old film about a subculture. Think of just about any obscure topic, and you know there will be a passionate fan-club somewhere amongst your Google hits. Such it is with teen magic…